When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition. -Katarina Witt

In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances. - Terry Orlick

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. - Ouida

In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. -Willie Mays

I'll let the racket do the talking. -John McEnroe

Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick. -George Leonard

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. -Jean Claude Killy

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser. -Mark FidrychFifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. - Dennis Rodman

Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. - Mike Singletary

I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. - Jim Valvano

Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - John Wooden

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. - Roland Barthes

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. - George Orwell